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Real Time CI. Test/Build your Ruby/Python/Node.js code directly, without queues
Disclaimer: I'm the author of presented service, so if you consider this is a banal ad(which imo is not), please simply ignore it. Thank you.

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Presenting Beta version of CIBox.org, a free service featuring Live Code Sharing and Real Time CI.

Paste services doing a good job on sharing code snippets. The downside is that you have to execute the code in the mind or copy/paste it.

That's with condition your head and/or working environment does support the language the snippet written in.

JSFiddle-like services did a great improvement of situation by allowing execution of javascript code directly in your browser.

CIBox move forward and allow to execute your Ruby/Python/Node.js code in the clouds and presenting you with result in real time.

What about CI?

Well, CIBox tries to emulate a generic working environment, with a terminal, file manager and a classy file editor.

Using built-in terminal you can clone GitHub repos or rsync files from your computer,
install any dependencies your app/lib requires,
run files etc, just like you do with your usual terminal.

Tests/Builds happens in real time and run on selected lang version(s).

All major and head versions supported.

To avoid repetitive command typing there are stored procedures. Just create a procedure and run it until tests becomes greeny.

Repos can be forked/downloaded.

Here is a introductory video:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ceJLwOOATx0

Best Wishes,
Silviu.
Why would you expect to be able to see a deviation of 0.27 on a graph that goes from 0 to 60? That is a change less than 0.5%.

The numbers quoted aren't read from the graphs, but rather the graphs and the numbers are derived from a table of data.
App.net Thinks of the Poors, Lowers Yearly Membership Price, Adds Monthly Plan
So. A reading list would be handy.
Oh sorry guys missed the digit concatenation bit.
In that case I get:

(9 - (5/7)^(1/2)) / 3

I was tired when I saw that post, it was late/early. rmccue, I also seemed to have missed that you gave an error bound =(
I am not OP but i use win 8 for my primary OS too and i don't use any AV. IIRC, win8 had some built-in virus protection. Also my usage is primarily pro and don't use thumb drives etc on my workstation. Also my internet habits and chrome protect me from internet side of things.
Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.
Our new mass-customisation service, inc a legitimate use for 3D CSS.
Mad Marbles android live wallpaper
Chicken Parmesan Meatball Recipe
her other posts are also very funny in my opinion :p
OP claims that a Windows 8 uses a feature which without exception causes 1. extra IO workload, 2. reduced performance and which 3. persists entire sessions to 1. reduce IO workload, 2. increase performance while at the same time 3. session is not persisted.

I point out how this argument makes no sense.

I don't think I'm the one you should target with "citation needed".
Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban: Inside TypeScript
I live in Germany and I have never held a real gun in my hands. I am not sure where to go to get one. I think there are some shops, but a gun permit might be required to buy one.

Printing one at home would lower the bar, I think. Not that I need a gun, but I mean in general. What about kids, for example?
Sure, Microsoft fans never need to cite anything. Being Microsoft is enough. Oh btw, all that nice features already exist in other OSs since a very long time ago. Oh and also: can we finally stretch the Windows console horizontally?
I had $300 shaved off of a $1100 trip. Some of the posters really must read the criteria first and one, who I ended up going with, went way above and beyond in his helpfulness for the default bounty ($30?).

The only thing I'm worried about now is somehow getting my luggage wired through all legs of my trip rather than my having to go through immigration at each stop and pick it up, only to go back through again and drop it off :P
The Galaxy Tab was not destroyed by this ban. The Galaxy Tab was destroyed by itself.

If you've ever used a Galaxy Tab, you would know how terrible of a device it is.
And persistence. You're absolutely right.

For years I hired developers and told myself I was incapable of doing what they did, never tried to learn. After the job market got hot and I was having to pay good devs $100+/hour I decided I had to finally learn myself. Less than six months later I can now do 80% of what I used to pay people to do for me and 100% understand what they were doing from a high level and why. In another year I think I'll probably be a better developer than most of the people I've hired in the past (mostly because I sucked at hiring good devs because I had no idea how to evaluate their skills).

There's nothing I've had to learn that was especially difficult or that requires someone a lot smarter than me or a lot better at math etc. It just requires persistence and a willingness to put up with frustration until you finally solve problems.

My only regret is that I didn't start learning 5+ years ago.
"Windows - seriously just plug it in and it works." - biggest marketing lie ever. Do you seriously believe this?
> ...Python is even less popular than Java/Swing. Can you name any popular Windows applications written entirely in Python?

Can you name any popular Java/Swing desktop apps that aren't development tools?

I don't even have Java installed on my Win7 computer and don't recall even a single occurrence where I missed it, ever.

I have two Python programs that I use regularly: the popular Calibre eBook management software, and the also quite popular Anki flashcard program (both written in PyQt). I am sure there are many other popular cross-platform desktop apps written the same way, perhaps people just don't realize they are using an app written in Python.
An Interview with Brian Kernighan on C and The C Programming Language
The first two words in the headline are "Steve Wozniak."
Love it, would be even better if you could upload a photo and have that as the face
Proper timeline view for US history
Many history apps are out there. But how about touch friendly timeline view for historical events? Try out (if you need promotional code to save a buck, email cloud@netsco.kr for a free code)

Thanks.
Oh and when is tab file browsing coming? Windows 10? Dude these features are available in other OSs since long time ago. I still don't see why I would go back to use Windows (be it 8 or any version) at all. There's no coming back, Microsoft is outdated.
Think of it like pornography. It may be available cheaply at any time at the store down the street. But having it available for download in the privacy of one's own home removes a significant barrier.
And this is by far my biggest complaint. They've poured all this effort into something that people are actively trying to avoid. I had so much hope for the store...
Screenshots anyone? I can't find any.
Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time to write to disk. If you’re not familiar with hibernation, we’re effectively saving the system state and memory contents to a file on disk (hiberfil.sys) and then reading that back in on resume and restoring contents back to memory. Using this technique with boot gives us a significant advantage for boot times, since reading the hiberfile in and reinitializing drivers is much faster on most systems (30-70% faster on most systems we’ve tested).

Source: Microsoft, "Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8", Building Windows 8 blog, September 9, 2011 [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fas...
Neat idea, but I don't get it. Does it always show you the London skyline, but with the weather of your location?
You can already increase the width of the console, you just need to use Properties menu.
I recommend mu (http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/) to search emails. It can be integrated with mutt. But if you are an Emacs user then it even provides a mail client (mu4e).

And you can write scripts for it in Guile.
Along those lines:

This study by forensic science researcher, Birgitte Schmidt Astrup, found that consensual sexual intercourse often produces genital lesions:

http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(11)00563-9/abst...

It's interesting, because the finding of genital lesions sometimes decide the outcome of rape cases.
windows 8 has microsoft security essentials already installed (they call it windows defender)
NBaclava
Looking to get some feedback on my pitch and ways to improve what I can offer next time! Any feedback positive/negative would be greatly appreciated!
I've been programming python for years as well, and I had no idea. Not only that it sounds like the perfect solution to a problem in project I'm currently working on.
Samsung sues Apple over the iPhone 5.
Zuckerberg Was Right, but HTML5 is Not the Problem
Retronaut - Retro Photos and Imagery
Python directing C++
True.But not 'Apple Co-founder' like in link's headline.He's just a hacker nerd who shares his opinion.
I'm jealous of all the people that can come up with ideas so incredibly trivial that they're awesome and everyone buys into them.
One interesting bug with cast's
That's certainly interesting, and thanks for proving parts of my argument wrong. I do appreciate being corrected. However OP made the following claim:

Windows 8 lies to you when you "Shutdown." Windows 8 actually hibernates instead of shutting down for real; and you can get the same effect by enabling hibernation on Windows 7

Note the part that where he claims that you can get the same speedup on Windows 7 by enabling hibernation. This is provenly false and anyone who has tried it would know.
C++ Reflection: Type MetaData: Introduction
Hm, I might follow that idea (open in a new terminal window or split screen). I'd somehow have to get the original message as a quote for the new message.
XKCD 1110: The platform game
Hibernation over shutdowns massively improves the shutdown and startup times of my work PC.

Primarily because I have SQL Server on it for development - the services have a extremely long shutdown and startup time, which doesn't need to happen for hibernation.
Audio Content: Reaching The Parts Other Marketing Methods Can't Reach
Top 20 Innovation Articles – September 2012
When I first saw the site, I was hoping there would be a way to upload a picture, perhaps do some kind of feature-tagging (similar to the way you point out your pupils on photos on those try-on-glasses apps[1]) and have the site spit back a suggested face based on the features they had that most closely resembled yours.

Of course, this is complete spitballing, I have no idea if it's feasible.

[1]http://www.coastal.com/glasses/frames/derek-cardigan-7016-br... (click Try It On View)
Making magnets speak: the Barkhausen effect
I've written a huge amount about Firefox OS (B2G) and how much I feel that the undertaking it required for a company of Mozilla's size, was a mistake. I believe in Firefox and the power of Sync and I also believed in Thunderbird, especially the concept of an Android port.

Firefox on all platforms is a guest and I can understand wanted to have some firm roots. In one blog post I wrote that I'd have loved to see Mozilla put out a version of Android where they gut it and remove Webkit and replace that with Gecko.

Firefox's greatest problem of late is often described as a lack of imagination, but in truth, that's simply a symptom of limited resources. They're unable to induct a steady flow of volunteering coders and it's a shame. It's meaning that features are being neglected and delayed.

Take Panorama for example, users should be able to open Panorama and see all their windows on all their devices and open that in the existing viewport (window). The possibilities of Panorama are like something straight out of the future and yet it's been neglected to keep bread and butter features up to date along with implementing what is perceived as the uninspired design. Think about when Mozilla unveiled their plans for the Download Manager, literally a month or two later it was implemented by Safari, while Mozilla still hasn't completed their own idea. And I still think they should work on improving their feed reader, implement it in a way like Brief. I know when Limi came over from Google, he mentioned how little traction RSS has, but sometimes it's worth reaping the marketing on your niche features, rather than simply catering to the mass market and being thought of as just-the-same.

In regards to the philosophy behind Firefox OS, it doesn't take a genius to work that the App culture is here to stay for a while at least and that Mobile Web Apps are simply a Eutopian daydream. That can't be changed for now. What can be changed is that Mozilla work hard on making sure people understand the role of the web and the benefit that coding openly can bring. i.e. not using an embedded browser for authentication in your Android apps. Allow users to use Firefox so as they can use their stored passwords. But then, I'm a big believer that the Evangelism Team over as Mozilla needs more resources. The time for Mobile Web Apps will come, I'm sure, but not for now. The alternative is just so much easier from an end user point of view and it would seem that attempting to force the issue isn't helpful from a developers point of view either, ask Facebook.

Right now, Firefox OS's only competitors are Chrome OS and WebOS. It'll be interesting to see how each of those three evolve.
"uptime of over a year"

So how do they apply updates?
HackRF Jawbreaker
Domain-Specific Languages made simpler
Funny. Recently I was shown a hardware implementation that recognizes gestures, for embedded applications (e.g. cars).

This is on the other end of the implementation spectrum, in a browser, written in js. Quite cool nevertheless, although again not working in my browser of choice, Firefox (right now, the Android Beta).
I grew up in the UK and did some cadet training, so I learned to shoot a small caliber rifle there. I also know some farmers, some professional hunters, and some folk who go on pheasant shoots so I know a few people who use guns professionally and for sport. Legal guns are pretty widespread. On the other side, there is an illegal gun market in most large cities, where prices are shockingly low. In the reports of the recent killing of police in Manchester, both guns and grenades were claimed to be being sold on the street for between £50 and £200.

As for the argument about kids, if your kids have easy access to bullets, then there are already problems long before they start trying to 3d print a gun.
As an aside, I'm actually currently working on a tool that parses the Linux source code to find symbol definitions and then works its way back through the Git history to find the commit message for when the symbol was first defined.

Are you just doing something similar to cscope to find the definition of a symbol, then running git blame on that line? Or are you actually checking earlier revisions as well, to see if the symbol was moved or changed types?
These sort of things discriminate against those of us who have no idea how to describe appearance! If only I could upload a photo and it would make a "closest match".
I'unno, man. It's probably significantly lower than 99.99% of chrome users that stick with Google as their default search despite the first-run search engine selection dialog, but also likely not too much lower, either.

What's important is that they give the choice -- not just in a tucked away settings pane or whatever, but actually flash the question in the user's face in a meaningful way. If search engine monopolies are important enough to add "friction" to user interaction, then I'd say CA oligopolies are at least doubly so. The conflict of interest factor isn't present in the case of CAs, because, AFAIK google doesn't run any themselves (yet), but I think its still very important to give users the choice.

I also want to point out that Google runs all kinds of infrastructural nodes all up and down the internet's stack. They have no problem pioneering high-performance DNS to move the web forward, and they even are running their own fiber optic network, for crying out loud. They're huge on promoting IPv6 adoption, (mainly because it will remove any significant cap on the internet's (and thus their) growth). I think they can handle a few SSL notaries.

But security behind the scenes doesn't contribute to a palpably sexy image of the web in the masses' minds, so it doesn't really help google's bottom line enough for them to care. Kind of like how while their "speed" initiative complete with JSCDNs is terrible for privacy (third party resources sending referrers to Google upon fetching), it helps to make the web seem like a more serious platform in the subconscious minds of users by increasing performance.
The insinuation that one needs a technical degree to understand HN headlines is erroneous and pernicious. The advantage of being on the internet is that you are a small number of clicks away from learning the meaning of any arbitrary string of punctuation marks. The only requirement to do this is a willingness to learn. The apposition of what presumably denotes technical terminology and meaningless management jargon (i.e. "## paradigm") suggests that the author of this comic is unwilling to venture very far outside of a small intellectual comfort zone.
I was thinking the same thing. I expect an ebook and podcast will be released on how they made so much money releasing an ebook and then a podcast.

Personally, I find it a wee bit annoying. I'd rather see a new movie than sequel after sequel.
1 million jobs! glad that its happening in the land of Himalayas :)
Yesod: a web development framework written in Haskell
Ask HN: Graduate Java developer, should I get into iOS development?
I have just obtained my B.Sc in Computer Science however I've spent most of my time with Java.
I'm currently looking for jobs and wondered whether I should try to get into iOS development (via internship or similar) or to try and find a job with Java development.

Personally, I would prefer to be involved in something new. However as far as I know, most internships pay very little and I'm concerned how I will get by with all the different expenditures (as well as being in debt with a student loan, though that's only 2% or something from your pay-check providing you earn more than 20k per year).

What do you guys think? Is iOS development still growing or is it "too late" to jump into that game? I have some minor Android development too but I haven't found a company for that yet in the regions (Geneva-Lausanne, Switzerland) that I've been looking.
There's no need to post shortened URLs to HN, and in fact this is discouraged. If you post a very long URL, HN will elide the text beyond some limit so it fits better in the page.
Minecraft creator tells Microsoft to 'stop trying to ruin the PC'
France is dead... they just don't know it yet.
Downloading the Internet with a single machine
The Fake iPad Mini Is Even More Fake Now
Really cute! It'd be nice to be able to share a mockup with friends somehow.
Standard CSS syntax for arithmetic operations is the calc() operator:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#calc-notation
Cool tools to add dimension to your photos
They can also hire someone to do the matching manually (or do it themselves). It's a Show HN, which means they don't have a million users (yet)!
> That said, ASP.NET MVC is a misguided and overrated Rails ripoff, IMHO.

I completely disagree. ASP MVC may be inspired by rails, and C# inspired by java, and MS may be loathe to admit ether of those sources of inspiration.

however, ASP MVC on C# is great. Maybe because MS stole from the best.

IMHO.
> It is nice to read that Steve Wosniak supports the idea of iTunes on Android but to be honest, it does not make any sense for Apple.

As Apple's smartphone market share continues to erode, it will make more and more sense for Apple to try and capture some of the media purchase revenue from Android users by providing an iTunes app.
Good point - I guess somehow there has to be a way to print the bullets, too...

Not that I am eager for the time when everybody can print themselves a gun at home. But I guess it will happen.

Also, I have no idea how to find such a black market. Perhaps asking on Twitter would work? Otherwise I can only think of silk road, the BitCoin market. Never checked it out as I don't do drugs, but perhaps they also do guns?

Not that I want a gun atm, just curious out of principle.

Actually I would like to have a gun in case there is some kind of apocalypse. But I don't want to have a gun around (I think statistics say that you are much more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun). There should be some way to hide it somewhere safe :-/
Turn your PC into a retro gaming console
Thumbthing Worth Reading
This is a best thing I've seen all day.
For me the problem in working on side projects in the morning, is that the motor starts to run, and then it's harder to disconnect my mind when going out to work - at day job.

Of course at night it's harder because we're tired and can easily loose focus, but if not most productive it's easy for me to arrange the time and set more or less half an hour - balancing sleep hours of the week - to end the line of thinking without having to run to the bus to go to work.
Adam ‘HTML5 Guru’ Stanley – Tells How RIM is Using HTML5 in BlackBerry 10
The real problem is getting ammunition. Even if you can print a gun getting bullets will be a far bigger problem. (At least in Germany.)
Okay, so there's no token being passed? If someone manages to spoof the system, they could be anyone and just accept my access request?

I haven't thought it all through, but it feels like there's a weakness there that's just waiting to be exploited.
Microsoft’s last Window of hope
It's great to see a Kickstarter project deliver! This is some really good execution. Best of luck to you guys.
Run android apps on Windows and Mac seamlessly instead of isolated emulator
Apple to unveil 7.85-inch iPad mini on October 17
> mapped uniquely to a string of length of at most 2^N - 1.

I think you mixed up lengths and number of values here. With 2^N - 1 it is the latter.

> Of course one can also show that KC does not compress most strings by much.

The problem of finding the Kolmogorov complexity of a string is undecidable, so I wonder if this statement is true.
In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter
Zonefile goodies for vim
"... For a time Slashdot was read and commented on by all of the primary Open Source figures and and Linux contributors (Alan Cox, Bruce Perens, ESR, Miguel de Icaza, to name a few) and a lot of other random technical people (I seem to recall John Carmack would occasionally post). For pretty much any technical story there would be someone relevant on-hand to comment. ..."

#2774 here, I remember this well and it had a great effect. Every comment I was ask myself to think real hard, "is that worth posting". As for /. this is what I wrote about 6/7 years ago, sound familiar?

/. gone to seed

Since 1996 I`ve been making crappy comments and observations on slashdot. And I must say while I still like to frequently check the stories. I find them less interesting. The comments are less informative. Innovation less than inspiring. Its not just the dilution of smart readers that is a problem. ~ http://slashdot.org/journal/123931/-gone-2-seed-37
They could use mechanical turk